What Is the Best Method for a New Blogger to Build Traffic?

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Pat Flynn

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🗓️ 26 January 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Today's question comes from Sean, who asks about building traffic to his blog. Which method is best for a new blog: SEO or content marketing? Sean’s site is http://flighttrainingpro.com. I recommend using Yoast SEO WordPress plugin to help you include the correct SEO fields (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/); All in One SEO Pack is also a good alternative plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/). This is the FoodTruckr article I mentioned (http://foodtruckr.com/2013/10/what-i-wish-id-known-before-starting-my-food-truck/). The giveaway plugin I recommend is KingSumo (http://kingsumo.com/). Do you have a question about traffic growth? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:07.0	Dot com.
0:09.0	Hey, what's up, everybody? This is Pat Flynn and welcome to episode 768. No, 788. Sorry, I couldn't see.
0:18.0	Of Ask Pat, thank you so much for joining me today. As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:23.6	All right, now, here's today's question from Sean.
0:25.6	Hi, Pat, love your show.
0:27.6	Thanks for all the help that you've done.
0:29.6	I've recently started a blog at flight training pro.com.
0:33.6	And what I do is I teach people how to get their pilots license, anybody who's ever wanted to do it.
0:38.4	Hey, where do I start? It's a very overwhelming process. So I kind of want to teach people where to start, how to get their license, and how to really save the most money when they do it, how to do it the most efficient way.
0:49.7	I'm currently an airline pilot and father of three, so I've got a pretty busy life.
0:54.5	I've got the blog up and I've got some posts.
0:57.2	What is the best way for a newbie like myself
0:59.3	to start drawing traffic in?
1:02.1	I've heard out there that there's basically two different ways,
1:05.2	SEO or content marketing.
1:08.5	Which one of those should I focus on?
1:09.9	I really just wanna focus on one for maybe a couple weeks to a month and see how it goes.
1:14.1	And then I know eventually just probably I'll have to have some sort of combination of both.
1:18.5	But in your opinion, for a beginner blogger, what is the best way to drive traffic to my site?
1:25.9	Not really knowing anything.
1:27.5	SEO or content marketing or maybe something else, I'm not sure.
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